El 1 - Assistant Director Procurement And Contracting Assurance

EL 1 - Assistant Director Procurement and Contracting Assurance

• $115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% Superannuation

The Role
The Assistant Director Procurement and Contracting Assurance plays a crucial role in assuring Defence's procurement and contract management practices, to support groups and services to improve compliance and performance.

This will be achieved through implementing a variety of assurance activities, including deep dives, spot checks and data monitoring. Resulting in the identification of focus areas for improvement and reporting outcomes to senior leaders across Defence.
You will lead a team responsible for the planning, execution and reporting of assurance activities across Defence procurement and contract management processes.

Utilising a range of techniques and data sources, you will be responsible for developing and undertaking complex assurance activities, including compliance and performance reviews, conducting root cause analysis and proposing actions to remediate identified issues.

Further, this role will establish and lead stakeholder engagement across groups and services to support senior executive's awareness of any reported non-compliance and any resultant remediation required.

• $115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
• Brindabella Park - ACT

The Role
The Assistant Director Procurement and Contracting Assurance plays a crucial role in assuring Defence's procurement and contract management practices, to support groups and services to improve compliance and performance.

This will be achieved through implementing a variety of assurance activities, including deep dives, spot checks and data monitoring. Resulting in the identification of focus areas for improvement and reporting outcomes to senior leaders across Defence.
You will lead a team responsible for the planning, execution and reporting of assurance activities across Defence procurement and contract management processes.

Utilising a range of techniques and data sources, you will be responsible for developing and undertaking complex assurance activities, including compliance and performance reviews, conducting root cause analysis and proposing actions to remediate identified issues.

Further, this role will establish and lead stakeholder engagement across groups and services to support senior executive's awareness of any reported non-compliance and any resultant remediation required.

About our Team
The Procurement and Contracting Assurance (PCA) Team is an exciting new function being established within the Commercial Division of Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group. PCA is responsible for liaison and coordination across all Defence Groups and Services, to action the assurance activities within the Defence Procurement and Contracting Assurance Framework and endorsed program of work.
This function aims to improve procurement and contracting compliance and performance while also reducing the risk to Defence. Through the provision of insights, the team engages with subject matter experts to inform continuous improvement of procurement and contracting policies, procedures, guidance, tools, training and templates and skilling of Defence officials.
This is a high profile function with responsibility to produce regular reporting to executive committees on data driven compliance monitoring and outcomes of activities. In this team, you will have oversight of the multi-billion dollar portfolio of complex, high-profile procurement activities to support the ADF.
Our Ideal Candidate
Due to the high profile nature of this function, we are seeking enthusiastic individuals who pride themselves on delivering to a high standard with excellent attention to detail.
Our ideal candidate is:

• Experienced with the requirements and application of the Commonwealth Procurement Policy Framework;
  
• A highly motivated and solutions focused individual, able to foster a collaborative team culture to achieve shared objectives;
  
• Able to lead, mentor and develop a team, across multiple priorities, to achieve results;
  
• Able to use initiative, analyse information and apply critical thinking, to propose actions and activities that align with strategic priorities;
  
• An effective communicator, able to tailor both their written and verbal approach;
  
• Trustworthy, transparent with the highest level of integrity;
  and
• Confident engaging with stakeholders with various backgrounds and seniority.

If you are high performing, enjoy stakeholder engagement, and can lead and develop a team to achieve outcomes, this is the job for you!

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